I feel dumb for asking, but what's a flip?

Ah I thought it was getting caught in the act/having a breakdown in the game thread after being outed

I think I'm a bit too late now but I probably should have asked if you will be here for Day End, Evilisk. If you aren't able to be here, due to timezones or some other activity, it's totally fine but I wanted to ask.

You've probably already seen it before, but Day End usually kicks up the activity level and votes move around like crazy in those last few hours. This is also a prime time where Scum get caught since votes move around so much, so my only advice for Day End is as long as you can back-up your vote and it makes sense with your train of thought in the main thread you'll be alright. Like if you said you wouldn't vote for Burb early on but then in the last 30 minutes you jumped and voted for Burb without a good explanation. Stuff like that.

But really, given how weird this game is activity-wise I'm half expecting a dead quiet Day End. :x

Don't worry too much about it, Evilisk. Burb and I will do what we can to keep the lynch away from you and on someone else. If you aren't able to make it, that's fine. c:

Gaf please, I will never talk bad about you ever again.

Just please load, I want to post before before I have to leave for work. ;__;

Getting on that QB bus.

Well day ended, but at any case keeping on the QB train was the best choice. We have to look at the bigger picture here, jumping out of that bus would have looked really bad later.

I hear Maroon 5 is really good for taking the edge off.

Okay, team huddle everyone




We need a game plan, folks. Put on our war faces here.

Not gonna lie, we are in a very weird spot right now. Evilisk is getting a lot of heat at the moment and from my cursory read of the last day it seems the only reason he was not voted out was because of his 'New Player' status and with Day 2 all those meta restrictions will be gone. So, we need a plan. One that will hopefully keep Evilisk alive for a while longer and keep Town on their toes and hopefully get those innocent little Townies lynched instead. Burb and I have the benefit of being on the QB lynch train, although we are still being gut read as Scum by a few folks here and there so we need to be vigilant. 

I've got a few ideas how we can execute a plan and get through Day 2, centered around our Night Actions and what we can do in the main thread. 

First order of business: Fantastic Night Actions and Where to Find Them

SO our Track is gone but we don't need to fret too much about that, we still have our Roleblock, Poison, and NK. At the moment, without having read too deeply into Day 1 for breadcrumb hunting, I feel we should:

Poison: Combine
Kill: Lord of Castamere
Roleblock: Kalor OR Bronx

Why these targets, you may ask?

Poison is best used on someone who we don't want to take out just yet but want to have gone in the near-ish future. Combine fits this profile, as does Kryptik. However, I feel like Kryptik will be getting some heat tomorrow just like he was this Day phase due to his actions and Combine can also be placed in a similar vein. The problem with Combine is that he was the 3rd person in a row to do an OMGUS and it would be hard pressed to convince people that a Scum Team would not warn their new player Combine that OMGUS is bad, especially when others already got heat for that move. Therefore, I think he is a good target BUT I am not 100% on his death quite yet. I want to re-read first but this was my initial pick when I thought it over. Subject to change.

Lord of Castamere as a kill. Again, subject to change when I get time to re-read things but I feel like he is a decent choice. A strong player and can defend himself well when pressed so it would be difficult to get him lynched out-right. I do want to try and get him because QB threw him into his reads list with terrible reasons and I feel I can use that against him. I also want to stay away from top posters/Top Townies like Crab/Coppa/CornBro ( The Three Cs ) because if there is a Doctor they will most likely be on one of them or even Burb and I. 

ROLEBLOCK. I think trying to predict any form of Night Action the Night before it happens is going to be an impossible, blind fire task. We will essentially be shooting in the dark with it and I don't feel it's incredibly useful that way, where I do feel it is useful is in the Call-Out mechanic. Since there hasn't been any dissenting opinions on the Call-Out Gambit ( i'll come up with a cool name later ) other than not doing it on Night 1 I want to go through with it. This means we need to set that up now. 

The gambit would, if the stars align, go like this:

- We Roleblock/Call-Out Kalor
- Day 2 he gest heat because people are confused and maybe end up lynching him
- Night 2 we Roleblock/Call-Out Burb
- Same thing, although less likely to be lynched
- Evilisk gets lynched and the game knows that the Call-Out is tied to Scum. Scum wouldn't roleblock their own etc etc
- ????
- Profit

For that to work convincingly we need To have our first Roleblock target be someone who makes rational sense that we would roleblock. Picking someone at random doesn't work, we need someone that Town would believe we had reasonable suspicion to think had a PR. I would prefer if this person was low-activity, simply because Town would spend a bunch of time trying to get answers that would ultimately end up nowhere, BUT if no good breadcrumbs can be found I'm fine with picking a more active person. 

BUT for this to work effectively we need to focus on our main task ahead: keeping Evilisk alive. For that I hope you will enjoy the soon-to-be-released feature film

Rogue Evilisk: A Pop Wars Story

that will detail what I have in mind for that

brb

Ending Credit Teaser Spoiler: It Was Thanos Again

Some thoughts:

- While Burb and I are on the QB train I don't feel this will get us far. I basically ignored QB for most of the Day and then suddenly jumped on his lynch with, what I felt, was a rather poor reason for doing so. Typically the #ScumTells I worry over never get brought to attention but it's something I feel might happen regardless. Similarly, Burb jumped on QB rather late ( he was the last to vote besides Kalor ) but he has sound reasoning behind it. Burb, did you ever bring up the reads list in the main thread?

- Kalor's QB vote can be constructed as a late bus. Lynch target?

- Crab is untouchable right now. He leads the vote on QB and is Town Read by most. He isn't getting lynched anytime soon.

- The Pop Enigma. He's either fishing for a Night Kill on himself, has some sort of ability that activates upon his Lynch, wanted to start an easy train to catch Scum, OR is being suspicious to get by in the Night Phases without getting killed because he has a Cop/Doctor PR. I want to see what he does on Day 2 but the mystery surrounding his action worries me.

- Cops scare me. Doctors are annoying. A Poison Cure probably exists and that sucks.

- After what happened on the QB vote I think we learned two things. One, that a few people are stubborn on their votes and won't move ( Coppa, LoC, and CCS ) despite it being a little suspicious. Two, I feel like people jumped on the lynch target last minute, meaning that if we can get someone suitably suspicious to lead the vote towards a Day End we will be okay. We just need to get people to that point.

- maroon 5 is ok

garbage post

Okay, re-read all of Day 1. It was kinda nice it was so short since it only took about 25 minutes to read in full. 

But I need to apologize for that QB vote. I didn't realize at the time that there was an easy out with a Pop and a Flame Vote since both were on the brink of gaining traction before I went and voted for QB. I can give excuses up and down for it but it was a fuck up on my end, I'm really sorry about that. 

Where I now stand on Night Actions:

Kill: Combine, LoC, or Haly
Poison: Haly
Roleblock: Bronx

The Kill: Combine is a pick because he has some sound logic from the little he has said but his death also doesn't give much for Town to work with since he really didn't post a whole lot. He was also the last OMGUS, meaning I doubt he will get any heat for it and because QB ended his vote there. Haly is also a good kill target because of his inactivity for most of the game, meaning Town is left with nothing to look back at. HOWEVER, if Haly is NKed then any advances towards LoC will not work because he ended his vote on Haly and 'why would Scum kill someone they had a vote on?'. Which brings me to LoC. Middle-of-the-road activity, ends on Haly, and just didn't do much overall. Would give little info and would take out a player who I personally feel could give us some trouble later on.

Coppa also isn't a bad pick here. Generally Town Read but not to a point where a Doctor would be on him ( I think that honor goes to Crab atm ) so removing him takes out one of the least suspicious players currently in the game and leaves Town with more uncertain faces and general sense of distrust. Good if we want to take out those darn Town Read Townies.

Poison: Kryptik is still my pick. Made some damn good observations and would rather get him out of the way at some point. However, he was also getting slightly Scum Read so if he does get lynched the poison will have been wasted. 

Two alternatives: Crab and Haly. Don't ask me 'why Haly', the idea just struck me as I was typing and my gut says it's a good idea for some reason and I like to trust my gut on these things. Crab is also a good pick: Town Read and can be the Town Leader. However, I think he has the highest likelihood of having a Doctor on him tonight and we have no idea if Poison works through a Doctor's protection. 

Actually, I'm changing my mind but keeping my original thoughts above. Let's Poison Haly, get him out of the way at some point so why not do it now. Isn't Scum read/Town Read, didn't do much, a very 'null' player so far. It just feels right to me.

Roleblock: I'm of two minds here. One, roleblocking Bronx would bring him forward since he really just disappeared the end part of Day 1 and get him to the spot light. It also casts doubt as to what the 'Call-Out' really means because he was the first person to really question QB's 'joke' and had his vote on him by Day End. Two, it sort of 'confirms' he is Town since he gets a weird 'effect' on him at Day Start and also had his vote on a Scum Player at Day End. Can be constructed that he is inactive scum who let his partner die because he just wasn't there but I'm not sure it will fly. 

tl;dr

Kill: LoC ( IF poisoning Kryptik, kill Combine instead )
Poison: Haly ( IF killing Combine, poison Kryptik instead )
Roleblock: Bronx

Getting LoC and Haly out of the way ties up the QB loose end by removing his Day End vote ( Haly ) and also taking care of LoC who was the only one suspicious of Haly. And once Haly gets poisoned it will be clear that LoC is Town because Scum would never target the player they have 1 vote on. Books-ends that chapter right there.

But I do want to hear the opinions from both of you on what we should do this Night Phase.

(That was a lot of text to go through.)

=On how I've been playing, it's actually really weird to hear that I'm too agreeable. I wasn't aiming to be that, I just posted like how I'd normally post on GAF (Now I'm going to be super conscious of my posts, even outside of PopMafia D:)

=On being confrontational, I'll try to keep that in mind. I'm actually not very confrontational at all normally (like, forget GAF and it's strict mods, I'm just a quiet person by nature).
 I do think I'll find it easier to be confrontational on Day 2. It was just really hard for me on Day 1 because there was fucking nothing to work with (everyone being inactive didn't help things). At least I'll have Day 1's results to work with.


=On night targets...
The only opinion I have is that I'm a bit wary of poisoning Kryptik. He's definitely a tough customer, but I think if there's one advantage we can take of, it's that there is some suspicion on them right now.

Unless they're somehow not notified about the poison, I feel like poisoning them would basically prove their Townness to some of the other players and would basically remove all of heat from them.

I also think Kryptik double down on their suspicion of Burbeting/it'd draw everyone's attention to kryptik's suspicion of Burbeting (since they had a very strong opinion of Burb on Day 1)

I do want to deal with Kryptik but I think that poisoning might not be the best way to go about it/it might not be the best time to do it now.


=As for the rest, I would be okay with killing Castamere, and calling out/blocking Bronx.

The only hazard I see with killing LoC is that people might think my change in attitude towards Castamere might be because I knew he was going to die or something like that (it's probably a reach, but I'm paranoid enough to think it could happen)

I'm also okay calling out Bronx, mostly because it's been super annoying have such an inactive game, and they'd be forced to talk for even a bit.

And with poison, go with whatever. I'm not gonna argue if we decide to go with Kryptik, I just wanted to share my thoughts on that pick specifically.

Fuck I forgot about this. I'll look into this all later!